‘To dehumanise, terrorise us’: Muslims evicted in India’s Assam
By Sanghamitra Baruah
Dhalpur, Assam, India – Amina Khatoon is nine months pregnant and due to give birth any minute. For the past week, she has found...
Uttar Pradesh: Who are these Hindutva mobs prowling the streets, targeting minorities?
BY Karuna John
Sister Gracy Monteiro, a school principal, who belongs to the Mirpur Catholic Mission, her colleague Sister Roshni Minj, and their driver were...
Delhi riots: Police tried to paint every UAPA accused with same brush, Umar Khalid’s...
By Anand Mohan J
Former JNU student Umar Khalid’s lawyer told a Delhi court that the police “wished to paint every accused with the same brush”.
Senior...
Explained: Haryana lifts decades-old ban on govt employees joining RSS; how many other states...
By Varinder Bhatia
The Haryana government has scrapped a 54-year-old rule that restricted state government employees from joining or being associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)...
Police Beat Christians in Custody in Uttar Pradesh State, India
HYDERABAD, India, October 12, 2021 (Morning Star News) – Police in northern India arrested two Christians on false charges last month and beat them in...
Some Government Policies Broke Pandit-Muslim Relations in Kashmir—Sanjay Tickoo
By Ajaz Ashraf
Sanjay Tickoo is the president of the Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti, which he established in 1995 to fight, non-violently, for the rights...
Two nuns accused of ‘conversions’ seized at a bus stop in Uttar Pradesh
By Nirmala Carvalho
Varanasi (AsiaNews) – Police arrested two nuns in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and held them for a few hours in...
10-year-old Muslim boy enters Ghaziabad’s Dasna Devi temple, cops say he lost his way...
A 10-year-old Muslim boy, who had “accidentally wandered” into the Dasna Devi temple in Ghaziabad, was handed over to the Ghaziabad police by priest...
Aman Wadud: ‘There is normalisation of hatred’
By ZIYA US SALAM
Interview with Aman Wadud, human rights lawyer.
A few years ago, the human rights lawyer Aman Wadud was at the forefront of a...
NRC in limbo, Assam govt. appears to have gone soft on ‘Bangladeshi’ issue
The long pause in the exercise to update the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and a series of decisions have indicated that the Bharatiya...
Opinion: “India Has Subjected Its Religious Minorities To Many Genocides”
By Aasif Mujtaba
Shakespeare once said, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” Well, what is rotten in India is the behaviour of the state towards...
Delhi Riots: Groups Demand Release of UAPA Accused Gulfisha Fatima 18 Months On
A year and a half after UAPA accused Gulfisha Fatima's arrest, several press conferences were organised in solidarity with her and other political prisoners...
Family of Delhi riots accused fights for justice
By Hemani Bhandari
Two years ago, in a photograph with his wife, standing near the fridge in his house, Mohammed Salim Khan wore a blazer...
